No one should be really upset
about the number of Linux® companies that have indicated that they are in having to restucture. When
Linux® achieves world domination, there will probaly be no need to have companies dedicated to Linux®
itself. It will instead be part of the world infrastucture, and mirror sites will be run as part of other enterprises or
Government projects. The Kernal hackers will still get paid, as part of their jobs building/maintaining the
infrastucture that their employers use.

The trick is just to manage the transition in the meantime, so that we don't arrive at the end state before the
world is really for it. You could run out of resources before everything is in place.

Time zones

got out the old
FRG-7 on the weekend to update the clocks.
I figure if I am going to reset them, I may as well compare them to
CHU in downtown Barhaven to be sure. Of course
this morning, I noticed that my watch is still on daylight time.

as goingware says here are actually 5 1/2 time zones in Canada, the
provinces to
the east of the USA use either use Atlantic time, or Newfoundland time. Which are one hour or one and a
half-hours respectfully away from Eastern time. With the ExpressVue TV I often use this difference to watch a
program on a Halifax station an hour before it turns up on my local TV station. One also has three chances to
catch
the show you miss localy, by watching via winipeg, calgary or vancouver.

Spyware

My wife has installed Bell expressvue as an alternative to cable tv. The set top box
is supposed to be connected to the phone line so it can call home, but we were told that we did not have to do that
unless we want pay-per-view.

The darn thing has reached the point where you can hear a little relay clicking
about every hour trying to see if it can get a dialtone. I really wonder what it is trying to tell MaBell about us.

Neighbours

Walking the dog last night by Derik Burney's House, I see he has changed cars
again.
Corel probaly pays for it. I guess when you hobknob with billg you need a
Cadillac.

Update: The Truck is back, I always respect an engineer who drives a truck more that one who drives
a Caddy. maybe there is hope for Corel yet.

The Business of Open Source Software

I found out by accident about the
BOSS conference taking place on
November 25th of 2001. Looks like it might be interesting.